دانلود کتاب The Authoritarians

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Bob Altemeyer (http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/) —author of "Atheists", and "The Authoritarian Specter"—gives a readable analysis of the nature of authoritarianism and its current impact on American politics.

"What has happened to the Right?"

There are a number of people who will be offended by this book and dismiss it as a propaganda—most without even reading it. That is precisely what Bob Altemeyer's work predicts.

In this book, Altemeyer presents his lifetime of research into what is known as Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA). If that term does not scare you off immediately, you'll find in this book that:

1) It isn't as politically-charged as it sounds (Stalinists were high-RWA left-wingers).

2) The evidence for this personality disorder is overwhelming.

Simply put, the modern right-wing has become the political home for more than one-quarter of the population who support established traditions zealously and uncritically. This has given an audience to the corrupt politicians of the "New Right", who can be sure of support simply through saying what their followers want to hear.

Altemeyer concludes that, due to the very nature of right-wing authoritarianism, there is simply no easy solution. The best approach is to offer a hand of friendship, to offer to work together on shared goals in hopes of broadening the authoritarians' perspective.

"The Authoritarians" is a must-read book for liberals, moderates, and conservatives alike who are troubled by the extremism and corruption of modern neoconservatives

"The Authoritarians" summarizes the research of Dr. Robert Altemeyer, whose professional career has focused on the study of the Authoritarian Personality. The foreword is provided by John W. Dean, former Nixon White House counsel and New York Times best-selling author.

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From the author:

This book was written in 2006, halfway through George W. Bush’s second term as president. A great deal was wrong with America then, and I thought the research on authoritarian personalities could explain a lot of it. Since then a new administration has been elected, and although it has had to deal with a very serious economic crisis brought on by others, it is taking steps to correct some of what is wrong.

However, the forces that largely caused the problems have remained on the scene, and are more active today than ever before. As I try to show in the "Comment on the Tea Party Movement", the research findings in this book apply at least as strongly to America today as they did four years ago. Indeed, the events of 2009 and 2010 have confirmed conclusion after conclusion in "The Authoritarians". I wrote in 2006 that the authoritarians in America were not going to go away if they lost the 2008 election, that they would be infuriated if a new president tried to carry out his mandate. That has certainly been the case.

The feedback I’ve gotten from those who have read The Authoritarians enables me to give you the major reason why you might want to do so too. “It ties things together for me,” people have said, “You can see how so many things all fit together.” “It explains the things about conservatives that didn’t make any sense to me,” others have commented. And the one that always brings a smile to my face, “Now at last I understand my brother-in-law” (or grandmother, uncle, woman in my car pool, Congressman, etc.).

Maybe it’ll work that way for you too.

Bob Altemeyer
May, 2010
(http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/)